About Bandwidth Consortium

Secretariat

Technical and business operations are managed by an Operations Manager with Accounting and Administrative support provided by staff of the Nigeria ICT Forum Secretariat. The Consortium also employs an automated network monitoring and alerting system which complements those of the network operators for more efficient member services.

Foundation Partners

The Bandwidth Consortium (BWC) is a flagship project of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA). Four of the seven major US foundations that constitute the Partnership provided initial financial support for the BWC project. These are:

Several of the BWC member institutions are also PHEA partners, and the African Network Operators Group was commissioned by the Partnership to provide technical training for them. KPMG also provided business advisory support for the BWC project during a transitional phase.

Through the years, Intelsat has proved to be a valuable partner of the Consortium in provision of satellite services and in recent times alliances are also being formed with terrestrial telecommunications operators like MTN Nigeria and Glo-1 for the provision of high speed access via optic-fibre and microwave links at reduced prices.

Network Infrastructure Partners

The Bandwidth Consortium has services on

C-band Satellite across West and Central Africa provided by Intelsat

Terrestrial Optic-Fibre across Nigeria provided by MTN

Terrestrial Optic-Fibre across Nigeria provided by Glo-1

Initiated with the supported of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA), we are a group that makes Internet bandwidth more available to members at lower-than-market prices through wholesale purchase. We also help build technical capacity within our membership.

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Why Pick Us?

We only partner with network operators that have the infrastructure to support your needs.
We add our expertise to the network infrastructure to get you an even richer service experience.
Beyond delivering connectivity, we are able to assist with effective distribution so you can enjoy it within your institution.
By aggregating the bandwidth needs of our members and presenting to our network partners as a single wholesale purchase, you end up paying less for more!